YA Paranormal Authors

Stephenie Meyer

While not the most prolific YA Paranormal author, Meyers tops the list because it was her 4-book series, The Twilight Saga, that began the craze and encouraged more people to read the genre. Meyer claims to have come up with the story for Twilight in a vivid dream one night that she had to simply write down as soon as she was able to the next day. Her books swept the top four slots on the USA Today bestselling book list for both 2008 and 2009.

Meyer is a devout Mormon who graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons.

Website: https://stepheniemeyer.com/

Notable Paranormal Works: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn

Trivia: Meyer was planning to release a retelling of Twilight from Edward's point of view called Midnight Sun, but when a trusted reader of the drafts released one of the drafts to others to read, Meyer became frustrated and published her most recent draft on her website as a PDF and then gave up on the entire project.

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Maggie Stiefvater

New York Times bestselling author of The Shiver Trilogy, The Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races. Artist. Driver of things with wheels. Avid reader.

All of Maggie Stiefvater's life decisions have been formed by a desire to leave a mark, resulting in spray-painted cars, sharpie-covered computer printers, ink-splattered walls, and stories told in books, in magazines, and on stages. Maggie Stiefvater lives in the middle of nowhere, Virginia with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, two neurotic dogs, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki.

(Goodreads.com)


Website: https://maggiestiefvater.com/

Notable Works: The Shiver Trilogy, The Raven Cycle, The Scorpio Races

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Melissa Marr

Melissa Marr is a former university literature instructor who writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. She is best known for the Wicked Lovely series for teens, the Graveminder for adults, and her debut picturebook Bunny Roo, I Love You.

Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and been bestsellers internationally as well as domestically (NY Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal).Accolades include starred reviews on numerous books, YALSA Popular Paperbacks, IRA Notable Book Pick, Book Sense Pick (YA and adult), Good Morning America Summer Pick for Teens, Scottish Book Trust, Red Maple finalist (in both Ontario and Manitoba), and Goodreads Good Choice Award (Horror), RWA RITA award (YA).

She also write romance for adults as Ronnie Douglas.

She co-authored (with Kelley Armstrong) a MG trilogy as M.A. Marr.

In addition to novels, Melissa has co-edited several anthologies, as well as published short fiction, manga, and prose non-fiction.

She currently lives with her family in Arizona.

(Goodreads.com)


Website: http://www.melissamarrbooks.com/

Notable Works: The Wicked Lovely Series

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Rachel Hawkins

Rachel Hawkins was born in Virginia and raised in Alabama. This means she uses words like "y'all" and "fixin'" a lot, and considers anything under 60 degrees to be borderline Arctic. Before deciding to write books about kissing and fire (and sometimes kissing while on fire), Rachel taught high school English for 3 years, and is still capable of teaching you The Canterbury Tales if you're into that kind of thing.

She is married to a geologist, which means that they have incredibly strange dinner conversations ("So today at work, I wrote a chapter where killer fog, like, ATE PEOPLE." "Huh. Well, I was chased by an angry reindeer while trying to map parts of Norway." "Um...okay.")

Rachel also has a little boy whose main hobbies are playing video games, running around in circles, and plotting his Future Intergalactic Take-Over.

When not writing books, Rachel enjoys reading, traveling, and knitting (very terribly.)

(Rachel Hawkins's Blog)


Website: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/242839/rachel-hawkins

Notable Works: The Hex Hall Series, The Rebel Belle Series

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Rachel Vincent

A resident of Oklahoma, Rachel Vincent has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and consistently finds the latter to be more practical. She shares her workspace with two black cats (Kaci and Nyx) and her # 1 fan. Rachel is older than she looks-seriously-and younger than she feels, but remains convinced that for every day she spends writing, one more day will be added to her lifespan.

(Goodreads.com)


Website:  http://www.rachelvincent.com/blog/

Notable Works: The Soul Screamers Series

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Kimberly Derting

Kimberly is the author of the award-winning THE BODY FINDER series, THE PLEDGE, and THE TAKING trilogies. She's also co-written the brand new picture book series, CECE LOVES SCIENCE!

Her books have been translated into 15 languages, and both THE BODY FINDER and THE PLEDGE were YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selections.

These days, she spends entirely too much time ordering stuff off the Internet and binge-watching Netflix with her husband and kids.

(Goodreads.com)

Website: https://www.kimberlyderting.com/

Notable Works: The Body Finder Series, The Taking Series

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Cassandra Clare 

"Cassandra Clare was born overseas and spent her early years traveling around the world with her family and several trunks of fantasy books. Cassandra worked for several years as an entertainment journalist for the Hollywood Reporter before turning her attention to fiction. She is the author of City of Bones, the first book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy and a New York Times bestseller. Cassandra lives with her fiance and their two cats in Massachusetts."

(Goodreads.com)


Website: https://www.cassandraclare.com/

Notable Works: The Shadowhunter Chronicles